Johnson claims that he relied on that promise, and by not holding up its side of the bargain, Twitter caused him harm. This, explains Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, is a legal principle known as “promissory estoppel,” and it’s being argued with increasing frequency with regard to social […]

The report appeared to arrive unsolicited under the heading of “How to win the bid for the new Amazon Headquarters.” Its authors included Ted Carman, president of a local company that consults with municipalities on housing and zoning policies, and Barry Bluestone, a Northeastern University economist with an expertise in housing.

Northeastern University’s new athletic director, Jeff Konya, sounds very much like a man who plans to bring a new-age outlook to a Huskies program rich in old-school tenets.

“How do you demonstrate someone is psychologically unsound?” Robert Gilbert, a professor at Northeastern University and an authority on the 25th Amendment, told CBS News last year. This is still an open question, and unless Mr. Trump submits to a thorough examination by a team of unbiased mental health professionals, it’s not one with an […]

According to a Gallup poll last December, 72 per cent of Americans believe the US healthcare system “has major problems” or is “in a state of crisis”. The strains are all too apparent. From 2005 to 2013, medical bills were the single largest cause of consumer bankruptcy in the US, according to Daniel Austin, a Northeastern […]

Sidney Gish’s story so far is a familiar one. By day, the 20-year-old singer-songwriter studies music business at Boston’s Northeastern University; by night, she digs deep into lo-fi bedroom pop, anti-folk, and uptempo rock jingles, adding to the wealth of catchy, oddball songs she’s been posting on Bandcamp since 2015.

The analysis was written by researchers at Northeastern University and the final, full report is set to be released in June with more information on police-citizen encounters, police proactivity, police lawfulness and police-community relations.

The analysis was conducted by Northeastern University researchers Jack McDevitt and Anthony Braga. In the pilot program, 100 cameras were placed on patrol officers in five police districts, and plainclothes officers in the Youth Violence Strike Force, which tends to gang matters. There were 281 participating officers in total, and they typically worked day shifts. […]

BPD worked with Northeastern University researchers on the report, which gives preliminary findings into the program. The impact of the body camera program, according to the report, was 12 fewer complaints filed against officers during a one-year period.

The analysis, written by Northeastern University researchers for BPD, found the reduction in citizen complaints “small but statistically significant” and the reduction in use of force reports not statistically significant.

The candidate, now headed to human trials for skin infections, adds “an important piece … to the puzzle of creating a perfect antibiotic,” says Kim Lewis, a microbiologist at Northeastern University in Boston who was not involved in the work.

The report focused on two areas — citizen complaints and use of force. In the findings, compiled by researchers at Northeastern University, body-worn cameras “may generate small benefits to the civility of police-citizen civilian encounters.” According to the analysis, body-worn cameras reduced the number of citizen complaints by a small amount — 12 over 12 […]